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Native American Conflicts

Quiz by Nicole Garcia

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  • Q1
    Why did the Europeans come to North America?
    to test their ships
    to learn a new language
    to get more land and resources
    to meet people from different cultures
    45s
  • Q2
    What argument does the author develop in this text?
    Europeans and native Americans worked together to fulfill their needs.
    Native Americans had a negative impact on early European settlers.
    Native Americans had many problems even before the arrival of Europeans.
    The arrival of Europeans had a negative impact on the lives of Native Americans.
    60s
  • Q3
    Read these sentences from the text. The consequences of European arrival to North America negatively affected the relationships even between Native American tribes from time to time. Native Americans were suddenly scrambling to share resources with whole new groups of people who had access to powerful weapons, technology to build sturdy buildings, and the ability to call for reinforcements from thousands of miles away. Based on this evidence, what conclusion can be drawn?
    Native Americans posed a greater threat to European settlers than the Europeans posed to Native Americans.
    Native Americans had plenty of resources to share both with other tribes and with the European settlers.
    Native Americans wanted to share their resources with the Europeans in order to gain access to weapons and building technology.
    Native Americans faced the threat of war with the Europeans if they did not share their resources with the settlers.
    60s
  • Q4
    Read these sentences from the text. The relationships Native American tribes had built with each other became tenuous as the mounting pressure coming from European settlers threatened to destroy their ways of life. This sparked many skirmishes between tribes over hunting land that was becoming more and more scarce as Europeans continued to settle further into the West. Based on this evidence, what conclusion can be drawn?
    The European settlers caused Native American tribes to have conflicts with each other that they might not have otherwise had.
    Native American tribes had already been engaged in conflicts with each other when the Europeans arrived and worsened the situation.
    The European settlers were attempting to improve the quality of life for Native Americans by settling in the west.
    Native American tribes fought with each other over access to the resources and goods provided by European settlers.
    120s
  • Q5
    What is the main idea of this text?
    The presence of Europeans in North America had a significant impact on Native Americans.
    The European settlers interacted with native Americans because they wanted to settle new land.
    The Europeans and Native Americans combined their resources to establish a new civilization by working together.
    The Native Americans were unwilling to work with the European settlers.
    120s
  • Q6
    Read these sentences from the text. The relationships Native American tribes had built with each other became tenuous as the mounting pressure coming from European settlers threatened to destroy their ways of life. This sparked many skirmishes between tribes over hunting land that was becoming more and more scarce as Europeans continued to settle further into the West. Based on these sentences, what does the word "tenuous" mean?
    pleasant
    weak
    surprising
    cooperative
    120s
  • Q7
    Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. When hard times came for the settlers in 1608, they pressured the natives into giving them food, ________ a slew of conflicts now collectively called the Anglo-Powhatan Wars.
    resulting in
    in spite of
    due to
    for example
    120s

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